“mm— AN omfiirALflNsno. Crimes and Cruelties Praeticed by Per- sia’s Late Ruler. : With the death of Nasr Ed-din there has closed the career of one of the most cruel and rapacious monarchs Persia has ever been accursed with—a verit- table Oriental Nero. Under his reign the peasantry were constantly plundered without hope of relief, as the so-called civilized powers, Great Britain and Bus- sia, ever had covetous eyes on the pos- sessions of the Shah and winked at his wickedness, says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Probably the most atrocious of the many crimes of the Persian monarch was the cruel death meted out to the Governor of Matzendor, Abdullah Kulah, whom he sentenced to be boiled alive in a cauldron of oil, on the charge of embezzlement. Notwithstanding his pleadings and prayers, Abdullah Kulah was pitched head first into the cauldron by the executioners of his ’serene high- ness,while the Shah stood by to see that his mandates were obeyed. . Travelers through the domains of the Shah said that it was not an uncommon thing to hear groans issuing from pil- lars of brick on the roadside, the living tombs of peasants unable to satisfy the demands of the tax gatherer—left to a lingering death, without food to satisfy hunger or ,water to quench theirlthirst. To prolong the, misery of those unfor- . tunate wretches, a small window-like aperture is left in the} pillar, Ithat the prisoner may breathe, and not die from suffocation. These tombs dot the way , side in the Province of Hamadan as plentifully as do crosses of the moun- tain roads of Mexico to show where some wayfarer has fallen by violence—- a more merciful fate than the Persian monarch meted out to his subjects. LAWYERS. ARE LONG SUFFERING. The 'One in This Story was Unusual- ly Hit Hard. A Durham miner, aged 73, visited a Newcastle lawyer, a bachelor, for the purpose of making his will. The old man’s property consisted of itwo small cottages, that had cost him £150 and a little furniture, says London Household Words. The lawyer having asked his client how he wished to dispose of his property, the latter replied: “Ma ole woman hes‘ to have all so long as she’s ma widow. Efter that me bairns gets all.” .“What age is your old woman?” ask- ed the lawyer. é‘Seventy-two,” replied the miner. “And how long have you and your wife been married?” asked the law yer. “Over fifty years,” answered the miner. Thereupon the lawyer suggested to his client that he should give his wife the interest during her life, whether she continued a widow or otherwise. “Hinney, awinnot; aa‘ll hev ma aan- way,”said the miner. “But, surely,” replied the lawyer, “you don’t expect your old woman, seventy-two years old,wou1d ever marry again?” . The miner, looking the lawyer full in the face, answered, with much solemn- ity. “Wey, hinny, ther’s noe knaaing what young chops like yourself will do fer money.” do: rirn’tnrxey Dinner. Mr. Newbryde (attempting to carve the turkey )—Good Heavens, Mary, what have you stuffed this turkey with? ‘ Mrs. Newbryde (with dignity)—Why - with oysters, as you told me. Mr. Newbryde (again trying to force his knife thrc’)——But it feels like rocks or stones. Mrs. Newbryde—Oh you cruel brute! ,That is the oyster shells. You always told me the way you liked oysters was in the shells—Puck. lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlIIIIlII'.'llllIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINIIIIII:i WEIGH IT CAREFULLY. 'in your mind and you‘ll realize why economy and health, together with quick and satisfactory results may be .obtained by using BOSS BAKING POWDER “The kind Boss makes his Biscuits with." Over 3,000,000 pounds of them sold in the past year, show their perfec- : tion; and your pics, cakes and biscuits Ecan also be “ light as a feather” if you make use of the secret of their success. 0. 1). Boss a son, New London, Conn." ALL GROCERS. - illllllllmllniIIInmuuu-um .............. QUEEN OF" "ENGLAND. THE LOYAL ENGLISH ‘VIEW' OF THE PRESENT SOVEREIGN. What Is Said. by a Thoughtful British Journal of Her Remarkable Reign. A Very Close View through Friendly Eyes. The London Spectator says: There is something in the position of Queen Vic- toria, as she approaches the confines of late old age, which deeply moves the European imagination. In all history there has been no such reign, so long, so little marked by collisions between sovereign and subjects, so little broken by public calamity or failure of any description. George III. when he died, had reigned a few months longer, but George 111., though at intervals person- ally popular, was at war with the majority of his. subjects during the greater part of his reign; the advisers he chose for himself, from Bute to Adington, were usually inferior men, and he lost by sheer mismanagement the greatest possession of the British crown. The Queen throughout her reign has lost nothing which was hers when she ascended the throne except the seven Greek islands, which her people never valued, and, in part 'no doubt [from ignorance, do not ID188- Her advisers surrendered the Transvaal after shedding much bloood for its pro- tection—Isandlana was fought and lost in protecting the Boers rather than ourselves—and the surrender has turned out disastrous; but the Transvaal was no part of the Queen’s hereditary do- minion, and the loss, as Englishmen have reaped the profit of the gold mines, is trifling when compared with the total acquisitions of the reign. New Zealand in the South Pacific, kingdom after kingdom in Asia, provinces in Africa, whose vastness Englishmen even now do not realize. have been added .to the empire, until the Queen, though she calls herself only Empress of India, is practically also Empress of Ava and of the Nile. It is, however, when we employ the terminology used by the diplomats at the Congress of Vienna that we realize the full degree in which Providence has raised her Majesty’s position, for under her gentle and tolerant rule population has in- creased even faster than the area ac‘ quired by conquest or settlement, and she probably. reigns to-day over 120,- 000,000 more “souls" than obeyed her when, as a girl of 18, she first asconded the throne, the total number of her subjects now amounting to nearly 400,- 000,000, or nearly one clear fourth of mankind. - The revenue drawn from this vast multitude is more than twice the sum of which her Majesty’s advisers all over the world disposed of in 1837, yet so lightly does taxation dress that there is no division of the empire which is not far richer, while at home the increase of wealth has been so vast that the de~ mand of the royal tax gatherers may be said to be comparatively unfelt. There ' is no corner of earth within her domi- nion, or one in which the English lan- guage is spoken where the Queen would not be as safe as within the walls of Windsor. How much of all this can be fairly carried to the credit of the Queen? No one will be able to answer that question until, some fifty years hence, the secret memoirs of this reign have begun to pour thick and fee upon the minds, possibly the slightly bewildered minds, of intending historians. It is one proof among many that the Queen has been a good queen, that to this day, when she has reigned so nearly sixty years, her Majesty’s personal seclusion has been maintained, and she> is still to the mass of her subjects, indeed probably to all except three or four close relatives and friends, something of a veiled figure The veil which shrouds our monarch would not be respected for a week if the monarch were bad either personally or politically. Some few facts, however, may be taken as certain, and are indeed matters of common knowledge. The Queen, at first through her husband, afterward through her own strength, has-for the last fifty years exercised a great influence upon affairs, especially upon foreign politics, has accelerated or impeded the choice of Ministers, has been the close confidant of every Pre~ mier, and has on every adequate occa- sion exerted the full influence which must belong, be the Constitution what it may, to the person who, being armed with the imprescriptible and self derived charm of the throne, has the right to compel, all Ministers and ser- vants to explain to your wife, your wife has influence, and the Queen throughout her reign has been at least the wife to the Ministry of the day. Yet in all that time no one can point to an occasion on which the Queen and her Ministry have been in collision, or in which she has done any act over which wise Ministers grieved, nor in which she has in the slightest degree, we will not say for- feited but diminished, the confidence of her people. ' . Handy to Have. Most Russian newspapers keep “a man of straw” as responsible editor. In return for the use of his name he draws a salary of about £200 a year. In the event of prosecution the man of straw has to stand fire. If the judgment is against the paper he has to go to prison. Some time ago the man of straw of the “N ovoe Vremya” was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment. It was the first piece of work he had done for 'some years, although he had been regularly drawing his salarly all the time—Pear- son’s Weekly. Sunday School Teacher (in New York)—All these things, children, that I have been speaking of will take place when the millennium comes. Small Boy (who reads the papers)— Ain’t agoin’ to be any millennium, ma’am.. Teacher—Why not, Tommy? Small Boy—Chicago’ll get it.—Chi- cago TrLbune. he stood by the throttle. A NORTH ROLE ROMANCE! A (Scientific Story of the Twentieth Century. It was a beautiful morning at Pole- ville Centre, Strawberries were in full bloom, and lovely white polar bears could be seen. frolicking on the huge blocks of ice along the ocean front. It was high June, and little Trilbean Nan- sen, getting to be big now, and grand- daughter of the famous explorer, was plucking clover by the roadside and ever and anon casting her pretty eyes sea- ward in the fond hope of seeing the sails of her lover's balloon, which was expected home that very day from the old world, namely America. ' "He loves me, he loves me nit,” she murmured musically, pulling the petals from a frozen sunflower and dropping “them in profusion around her pretty bare feet. CHAPTER II. Poleville Centre was the largest vil- lage in the great fertile region of the newly discovered country. Some want- ed to call it N ansentown. some New Norwegia, and some New England N o. 3, but by a vote of the House, 29 to 3, it was decided that the new land should be called Poleville Centre. This, they argued, would be more fitting, since it suggested a turning point in the world’s history. CHAPTER III. For ten days and nights did the fair maid stalk beside the sad, salt sea, throwing her searchlight across the thickly wooded shores of Greenland in- to Baffin Bay beyond, and wringing her soft, white hands, which had be- come soaked in Arctic fog. Nosail ahoy was visible. At the end of the tenth day she went home to eat and help her mother make ice cream for the summer boarders. Signal lanterns were run to the top of the pole and a strolling German band was detailed to scatter along the beach and blow their horns at regular intervals. And the days chased one another onward in their mad glee, and still no sail was visible. CHAPTER N. N ow, it so happened that in Poleville Centre lived a young doctor who was also a suitor for the fair Trilbena’s hand, but he didn’t suit her. He had watched her through all her great sor- row, longing yet fearing to offer her words of love and condolence. Then he was missing for several days. No one skating along the main thoroughfare had seen his familiar figure for some time, and people fears- he might have been borne away in the night on a de- parting ice berg. Not be. . CHAPTER V. One day'he suddenly appeared before the maid who had so many times re pulsed him. ' “Tribc-zna,” said he. “your lover is false.” “Sir!” see cried. “It is .. ue, Trillie. I swear it.” “How do you know?” she asked hoarsely. “I’veseen them.” “Them? \Vho?” “Why—-er—-—he and the woman.” “Woman? Woman? What wo- man?” . “Oh-er—one of the Bowery girls.” “I don‘t believe it. You are cruelly deceiving me.” “Well, will you believe your own eyes?” “Yes, I will,” she replied, in tones that would have turned cold the blood of an Esquimau. “Then come at once to my labora- tory.” On the way he explained to her how he had been at work upon a wonderful machine, and that at last it was com- pleted. “It is called the new triple X ray long distance telescope,” he said, "and now look. Look, Trillie, right through the body of your Mother Earth at New England. Find the streets of Boston, and tell me what you see.” She took the tube in her hand, while One long, lingering look and she dropped the eye piece and shuddered. “The villain! ’ she muttered, “and that woman has a past; I know itl” “Yes,” said the Doctor, “but it is a long way.” “Rottegun Edison,” she cried, Spring ing up, "I am yours I” Then be folded her to his bosom and would have wept for joy but for the danger of the formation of icicles on his face. “I might have known it,” she fondly murmured, “for was not the last petal on that sunflower nit?" CHAPTER. THE LAST. Dear reader, I will not pain or shock you with the details of the awful scene which our heroine was able to witness by the-means of the doctor’s wonderful instrument. Sumce to say, she saw distinctly the sidewalks of Boston, and on the Bowery, once known as Com monwealth avenue, she beheld her way ward lover waltzing to hand organ mu sic with a horrid looking female, clad in more horrid looking bloomers and a sweater. The other -members of the crew were there‘also, grouped about in unstatuesque postures, but as our story deals entirely with life at the Pole, we shall be obiiged to leave the unruly Captain and his followers in the midst of their twentieth century hilarity. This is True. “Papa, what is a ‘walk in life?’ ” “It is that procession, ‘my' boy, i,» which everybody has to run like mad. 'or get left.”—Chicago Record. Professional. “Wyndley is a soldier by professing. did you say?” ' “Yes. He has been ever since tin war.”—Indianap01is Journal. . The Great American Ben. The champions of the American her. claim that she adds $133,000,000 a year to the wealth of the country. but that. only pays for part of the damage she does in the garden beds. ‘ . Your Boy Wont Line d’nlonth. So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34'Mill St., South Gardnrr, Mass, was ‘told by the doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol- lowing Typhoid Malaria, and he spent three hun red and seventy-five dollars with doctors, who finally gave him up, saying: “Your boy wont live a month.” He tried Dr, King’s New Discovery and a few bottles restored him to health and enabled himto go to work a perfectly well man. ' He says he owes his present good health to the use of Dr. King’s New Discovery, and kn0ws it to be the best in‘ the world for Lung trouble. Trial bottles free at E. P. WEED’S drug store', N orwalk, and MONRoE’S, New Canaan. Constable Morehouse is serving notices on the parties interested in the East Wall street improvements. ~ Free Pil's. Sen-.1 your address to H. E. Bncklen & Co.. Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and, are particu- aud Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved in- valuable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetoble. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 250. per box. Sold by E. P. WEED’S drug store, Norwalk, and MONROE’S, New Canaan. Colonel Frost and family are due in New ank Saturday. having sailed from Southampton on the lst. , , Relief in Six H ours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis- eases relieved in siz hours by the “New GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN KIDNEY CURE.” This new remedy is a great sur- prise on account of its exceeding prompt, ness in relieving pain in the bladder kidneys, back and every part of the urin- ary passages in male or female. It re- lieves retention of water and pain in pass- ing it almost immediately. If you want quick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. P. Weed, Druggist. Norwalk, Conn. ii Mrs. Sarah L. Be ssey and Miss Amanda Smith of Franklin avenue are visiting friends in West Norwalk. Mother’s Delight With Hand’s Colic Cure HAVERHILL,‘ Mass, 11-30-‘95.—Hand Medicine Co.—“I WlSh to say that I pro- cured a sample bottle of Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and am delighted with it; My'baby is now four months old, and has suffered every day of her short life with col- ic. I have tried almost everthing ever heard of, but can truthfully say that any- thing I have tried cannot compare with Dr. Hand‘s Colic Cure. Yours respect- fully, Mrs. G. G. Miller, 38 Arch St.” Sold by all druggists, 25C. Miss Bessie Keeler who has Leena guest of Miss Maud Keeler on Grand street has returned to'her heme in Wil- ton. Try Allen’s Foot-Ease. A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season of the year your feet feel swollen and hot, and get tired easily. If you have aching feet, new shoes or tight shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves come and bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Sent by mail for 25c in stamps. Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy, N. Y. If you have a claim against the town, it will please the selectmen if the same is presented before the 28th of this month. _________ Shakelnto Iour Shoes . Allen‘s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful swellings of the joints and instantly takes the sting out of come and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shees feel easy, It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all drnggists and shoe stores, 25c, Trial package free. Ad- dress, Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy, N. Y. Mrs. Fred A. T-alor and her sister Mrs. Charles F. Tianler of Newark, N. J. spent yesterday with relatives in Stamford. _ Mother's Find Nothing to Equal Dr. Hand 8 Colic Cure. WATERBURY Conn, 4-2-’96—Hand Medicine Coz—iDear Sirsz—“I am using Dr. Hand’s Cough and Croup Medicine and Colic Cure for my children and find nothing to equal them. They work like magic. I would not be without them in my house. The little ones love Dr. Hand’s Colic Cure and cry for it ; it relieves them almost instantly. Mrs. Frank Smith, 2-2 Wood St. At all drug- gists, 25. Peach Commissioner George 0. Com- stock of Broad River District has star- ted out on his annual peach-yellows ex- termination trip. Bueklln’s Arnlca Salve. The Best Salvein the world for cute Bruises, Sores, Ulcers Salt Rheum Fever Sores. 'l‘etter, Chopped Hands Chilblaiue, Corns and all Skin Erup lions, and positivelyeures Piles. or _no Payrcquilred. It is guaranteed‘to give perfectsatisfaotion,or money refunded Price25 cents per box. For Sale” by E. P. Weed, Norwalk and Monroe, New Canaan. Work on samples will be commenced at the Wheeler straw hat factory next Monday. The amount to be raised by Stam- ford’s city tax is $112,287 "on a grand list of $17,888,112. ‘ The Best Remedy for Bowel Cbm- plaints. It gives me pleasure to most heartily recommend Chamberlain’s Medicines. . advertised them for a long time before I had occasion to use them in my-own family. At the time referred to, the patient was suffer- ing terribly from cramps, yomiting and purgeing. I was delighted with the prompt relief afforded by Chamberlain’s Coho, Chol- era and Diarrhoea Remedy—A, M. EVER- LAND, Editor and Proprietor of the Weekly Globe, .Mendon, Mich. For sale by E. P. I Weed, Druggist. larly effective in the cure of Constipation ‘ Now is ' ime , _ :5 "it. To Send inlour Advertisement . an \ringlrade. 0 AEITE IS THE RIGHT HEIIIIIH THHIIIIGH WHIGH T0 HEIGH THE HEHIIIHE PIIBLIG. 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